(2005-03-15) Costikyan Rants

Greg Costikyan rants about the structure of the Computer Game industry and the need for alternative distribution models. His complaints about rising development costs mirror the Movie Industry: he's right that guys like him will have no fun in that contra-AmatEur world, but it's defeatist to pretend that the alternatives don't exist. Though maybe those alternatives don't have a DayJob paycheck involved. Think of the kid who wins at Sun Dance on a movie he spent $300 making. Or think of East Gate.

I wonder whether some sort of SlashDot rating system could be used to drive interest in the Long Tail of games?

(Note: there were also rants by Brenda Laurel, Warren Spector, Jason Della Rocca, Chris Hecker.)